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• Fears notorious murderer who dumped woman's body parts around...

  13-09-2017 23:38 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  A distraught husband is desperately fighting to stop the brute who murdered his wife and then dumped parts of her body around a Croydon golf course from being released from jail. Isabelle Lewis was shot in the head with an air rifle and stabbed several times before her body was mutilated. A cross was carved into her forehead, her head was shaved and some of her teeth were pulled out, it emerged during the trial of her killer Keith Valentine 17 years ago.Most of the body parts were found either..
  
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• This is what is being done to get a group of travellers to leave...

  13-09-2017 22:33 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Croydon Council has revealed what is being done to get a group of travellers to leave Wandle Park.Travellers, who are understood to have parked up in the park on Monday morning (September 11), have been presented with an order to leave by the council.Residents have reported seeing a group of at least six caravans and seven other vehicles at the park, which is just off Waddon New Road, . This is the second traveller incursion at the site in the past three months.READ MORE: Croydon to hold UK's...
  
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• Tram speed checks only happened once a month before deadly Croydon crash - Metro

  13-09-2017 21:58 via metro.co.uk
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  Tram speed checks only happened once a month before deadly Croydon crash
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  Tram operators were only monitoring the speed of Croydon's trams once a month before the crash that left seven people dead last November. Previously, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch found that the tram that derailed at Sandilands Junction was ...
  
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• REVEALED: The number of visits to Croydon libraries has increased - Croydon Advertiser

  13-09-2017 21:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  REVEALED: The number of visits to Croydon libraries has increased
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  The number of visits being made to libraries in Croydon has gone up over the last five years, figures have revealed. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request made by the Advertiser has found the overall number of visits to the borough's 13 Croydon ...
  
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• ​Three former Whitgift pupils get on the property ladder on ...

  13-09-2017 20:32 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Three former Whitgift School pupils are on Channel 4's Location, Location, Location tonight (Wednesday, September 13).Joe Murray, 25, from Purley, William Downs, 24, from South Croydon, and Joe Rawlinson, 24, from Caterham, appear on tonight's hit property show.The group of friends were accompanied by hosts Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp as they try to get their collective foot on the property ladder. READ MORE: REVEALED: The number of visits to Croydon libraries has increasedMr Murray, from..
  
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• Location Location Location was set in Croydon tonight - here's...

  13-09-2017 20:21 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Location Location Location presenters Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer were helping house hunters in Croydon for tonight's episode of the popular Channel 4 show. Allsopp helped friends Joe, Will and Joe get their collective foot on the property ladder in South Norwood, while Spencer met newlyweds Leon and Cherrelle. Spencer helped the couple search in Caterham, Selsdon and West Croydon. They had been living with Cherrelle's gran while saving for a deposit as they looked for somewhere...
  
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• REVEALED: The number of visits to Croydon libraries has increased

  13-09-2017 20:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  The number of visits being made to libraries in Croydon has gone up over the last five years, figures have revealed.A Freedom of Information (FOI) request made by the Advertiser has found the overall number of visits to the borough's 13 Croydon Council libraries has increased when compaing figures from 2012 to 2017. The data shows there were a total of 1,859,113 visits made between the start of April, 2012, and end of March, 2013, compared to 1,917,777 in the most recent financial year - April..
  
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• Customers gutted as New Addington's only butcher's unexpectedly ... - Croydon Advertiser

  13-09-2017 19:03 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  Customers gutted as New Addington's only butcher's unexpectedly ...
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  Customers have told of their shock after the only butcher's in New Addington unexpectedly closed. Meat Express, on Central Parade, shut suddenly last night ...and more »
  
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• Croydon to hold UK's first ever pop up Canadian Market this weekend - Croydon Advertiser

  13-09-2017 17:06 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  Croydon to hold UK's first ever pop up Canadian Market this weekend
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  Croydon is hosting the UK's first ever Canadian market this weekend with visitors getting to taste specialities including hot waffles with maple syrup and be in with the chance of winning a dream holiday to Toronto. Surrey Street Market will be ...
  
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• Knowing your customers is the first step to a winning digital strategy for your business - and we can help

  13-09-2017 16:54 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  When it comes to digital marketing, every business should take time to set a strategy to help them achieve their goals.
  
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• Lack of business leads to New Addington butcher's shop getting the chop

  13-09-2017 16:51 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  A butcher's shop in New Addington has closed down for good.
  
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• Croydon MP pleads with Barclays not to close its Thornton Heath bank - Croydon Advertiser

  13-09-2017 16:03 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  Croydon MP pleads with Barclays not to close its Thornton Heath bank
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  A Croydon MP has urged banking giant Barclays to reconsider its plans to close a branch in Thornton Heath. Steve Reed, the Labour MP for Croydon North, has admitted he is "very concerned" after Barclays announced it will close the branch on Brigstock ...
  
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• ​Speed checks were only taking place once a month before the Croydon tram crash which killed 7 - Croydon Advertiser

  13-09-2017 15:35 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  ​Speed checks were only taking place once a month before the Croydon tram crash which killed 7
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  Speed checks before the Croydon tram crash were only taking place once a month and the results were not routinely reported back to Transport for London (TfL), the Advertiser can reveal. Before the tram derailed at Sandilands Junction last November ...
  
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• The mental health crisis of Croydon's children - The Croydon Citizen

  13-09-2017 14:26 via thecroydoncitizen.com
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  The mental health crisis of Croydon's children
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  When I was a deputy headteacher, I was woken one night in early June by a phone call asking me to go down to a police station to pick up a vulnerable year 11 student. When I say 'vulnerable', I mean distressed, angry, wild, violent and beyond reason ...
  
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• The Croydon mum who wants the world to treat people with an Afro better - Croydon Advertiser

  13-09-2017 14:03 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  The Croydon mum who wants the world to treat people with an Afro better
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  A mum-of-one from South Norwood who was told by her friends that her Afro was "unprofessional" and "unattractive" is now campaigning for the world to show less prejudice to people with the hairstyle. Given her own experience, Yvonne Ottley wants women ...
  
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• Croydon gunman jailed after firing shots at house full of innocent people - Croydon Advertiser

  13-09-2017 13:00 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
  Croydon gunman jailed after firing shots at house full of innocent people
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  A Croydon man has been jailed after he and another man fired three gunshots at a house full of innocent people in an apparent case of mistaken identity. Sohail Amin, of Kimberley Road, in Croydon, and Junaid Shakoor, of Rookstone Road, in Wandsworth, ...and more »
  
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• Meaning behind new mural in the heart of town revealed

  13-09-2017 11:27 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  If you found yourself walking through the heart of Croydon this week, you probably would have noticed a new mural taking shape.
  
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• A little bit of Canada is coming to the Surrey Street Market

  13-09-2017 10:59 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  A Canadian-themed pop-up market is coming to Croydon.
  
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• This week's episode of Location, Location, Location will be set in Croydon

  13-09-2017 10:51 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  Croydon will be the focal point of the next episode of Channel Four's Location, Location, Location.
  
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• The London Loom weaving studio is coming to Croydon

  13-09-2017 10:38 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  Get down to Boxpark Croydon this Sunday if you want to weave some loom.
  
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• 75mph winds batter London as Storm Aileen hits the capital

  13-09-2017 10:21 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  Trees have been knocked over and power cut as Storm Aileen battered London overnight.
  
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• New HMRC building in heart of town officially opened

  13-09-2017 10:15 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  The first HM Revenue and Customs’ centre in Croydon is officially open,
  
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• Former Sea Cadet leader jailed for grooming and abusing vulnerable child - Croydon Advertiser

  13-09-2017 10:06 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk
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  Former Sea Cadet leader jailed for grooming and abusing vulnerable child
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  A paedophile who used to be a Sea Cadet leader has been jailed at Croydon Crown Court for a series of indecent assaults on a "vulnerable" boy. Michael Dickson, from Orpington, appeared at Croydon Crown Court yesterday (Tuesday, September 12) and ...and more »
  
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• Men who shot a gun at a house full of innocent people in Wandsworth have been jailed

  13-09-2017 09:28 via yourlocalguardian.co.uk
  Two men who fired three gunshots at a house full of innocent people causing them to fear for their lives in an apparent case of mistaken identity have been jailed for a combined total of 22 years.
  
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